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Show Till! MIES' j IS 1116 BIG II! Louis Mann to Give Two Performances Per-formances at the Orpheum Next Wednesday "Friendly Enemies." which plays at the Orpheum theatre next Wednesday with matinee and evening performance, perform-ance, made a big hit in Denver. The following review by Thomas Hornsby Ferril appeared in tho Dencver Times: Reviewers of plays frequently become be-come so indiscreet as to tabulate oracularly ora-cularly the "best shows, of the season," sea-son," 'Wore one to essay this critical undertaking in Denver this week, he would be in error should ho refuse uj place near the top of the list to! "Friendly Enemies," the impressive ! comedy by Samuel Shipman and Aaron Hoffman, which opened an engagement en-gagement in the Broadway theater last evening with Louis Mann as principal Through scenes of pathos and hu mor, well written in tho main, bul not wholly freo from artless incongruities, the theme of this splendid play depicts de-picts tho" Americanization of a German heart during tho fearful days of 1917. Although "Frendly Enemies" has been 1 presented many hundreds of times and has outlived the period of its original application to American affairs, it is possessed of immediate timeliness with respect to the inimical radicalism which America is fighting today. Mr. Mann's achievement and indeed in-deed it Is an achievement worthy of high commendation is the portrayal of Karl Pfeifer, a German living in Now York, who, mistaking in Prus-sianism Prus-sianism the departed age of Goethe. Schiller and Lessing. is blindly drawn Into the intrigues of Hun propoganda in America. His refinement of character char-acter and admission of error, brought about by the imminence of tragedy within his own family, as interpreted by Mi-. Mann, aro striking. The acting of Marie Reichardt as tho old German's wife is highly perfected per-fected in dialect and character and of unusal merit Miss Betty Alden's" portrayal por-trayal of June Block, fiancee of Pfeif-cr's Pfeif-cr's son, William, is uncommonly delightful. de-lightful. Jecs Dandy give a satisfactory .characterization .char-acterization of Henry Block, the Ger-man-born citizen stanchly loyal to America. The others are Alan Hale, who de-pits de-pits intelligently Walter. Stuart, the German spy; Joseph Sterling as William Wil-liam Pfeifer, the sou, a llentonant. in the American army, and Nora, a maid, played by Miss Marcelle Nelken. The cast is exceptionally good.- |